Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! X. r. SIMPSON, of st. Elmo, Ind, while
playing with his 3-year-old boy. was bitten on
the thumb by the child. The wound bled very
| freely. soon the hand and arm began TO
! swell, and in a few days death resulted from
| blood poisoning.
MRS. COLLIER, of Oakland, Cal, has
brought suit for divorce against her husband
because he frequently went fishing, did not
| supply her with sufficient quantity of but
| ter and eggs, and often comp aimed because
ne had 10 eat cold supper after day OF pls-
! catorial sport.
! IN order that all the citizens of Minnesota
might read the Governors message it was
| translated into ten different languages-Eng-
llsh, German, Norwegian, swedish, French,
| bohemian, Finn, Polish. Italian and Chinese.
| SIX thousand copies were printed in English
ana 3Oo IN Chinese. the number IN the other
languages ranging from 500 to 1000.
| THE coyote is the enemy of the jack rabbit,
! and used to keep his numbers down. But
some years ago a bounty was put on the coy
! ote IN California, and he has since decreased
| and the jack rabbit Increased until now the
| latter does great damage to vineyards ana or
! chards. 1t il, therefore, proposed to take the
| 'oun,y OF of the coyote and put 1t on The jack
| rabbit.
| WHEN railroad trains are run, heated and
| lighted by electricity we shall have no
wrecks from boiler explosions, no smoke and
| cinder nuisance, no setting of the country on
| hre from sparks no burning to death OF pas
| sengers from coal stoves and oil lamps. Then,
! with wei constructed tracks, trains may be
! run at the rate of 10 or so miles an hour In
| comfort and safety.
THIRTEEN YEAR-oLD Willie Lamb found
| that big rock had fallen on the railroad
track in a narrow cut near Scottsburg, XIV.
He waited an hour and then succeeded in
! Hsgglng and stopping coming passe niger
| tram, The passengers made up nice purse
tGr him. 81 didn't expect nOthinS," said
| Willie modestly and ungramaticaliy II
just didn't Ike to see the tram busted up"
AT the inquest following the sudden death
| of Henry Jost. of St. Louis. his wife testified
that for eighteen years ''he had been fun
| IL was day to be remembered when he was
| sober. He began drinking whisky IN the
morning and kept it up all day. He never
! ate but one meal a day. and that was supper,
and he ate very little at that meal. He lived
on whisky, I'll ct last 1t burned the life out
OF him.
Oh the frat night of "Francillon," the cur
tain having fallen on a great success, NJ. Du-
mas was leaving the Theatre Francais when
pretty young woman. evidently of the best
social standing, rushed up TO MIN, full of en-
thuslam, and exclaimed: Ion, NJ. Dumas,
must kiss you" He gravely bowed his head
and received the kiss But you don't know
who l am. do you!" she continued NO"
said he. II don't; but my experience with
you Is mighty agreeable, nevertheless"
OF the 800 Friends" who died last year in
Great Britain and Ireland only % were under
five years of age; between and 10 years
there were ) deaths; between 10 and 20 years.
8. from 20 to 30 years the deaths numbered 10;
from 30 to 40, IS; 40 to 80 years, %; 80 to 90
years, %: from 60 to 20 years 81: from 20 to so
years. "A; from so to 20 years. SO, and from 80
TO 100 years, 10. The low lnfantile mortality
ana the large percentage of deaths at great
ages are remarkable even for the Society Of
Friends.
LAST FALL Maine farmer put letter In
one of Il lot of barrels of apples he was pack
ing, asking the buyer to write to him. The
other day he received a letter from an apple
dealer in Bradfori, Eng, who said that he
had bought the apples at auction in Liver
pool, He wrote they were a very fair lot of
apples and sound, adding: 81 am convinced
there would be q saving in sending American
apples through; that Is, il they could be
packed tight as these are. But if not packed
properly tight they would not do"
SAYS a Catholic Knight in the st. Louis
Globe Democrat: Judge Russell, the SUI
preme President of the Catholic Knights Of
America, is vested with more power than any
other man in America. Over 10000 members
of the order have to submit TO his will and de
cislons. he can suspend branch or branches
without number by the turn Of his pen; in
fact, he cOu Il suspend The hole order. 1t is
outrageous to think that any one man should
have such power vested in him. But the next
supreme Council, which meets in Chicago in
May. will change all this, as 1t viii also
abO ish the State Council, which has been such
a burdensome and expensive institution for
the accomplishment OF othing."
PENSION AGENTS, pension sharks. they are
sometimes, and more properly, called. have
already flooded the country with circulars
addressed TO the Mexican war veterans.
They want to be employed to push the new
pension claims, but the Mexican veterans VIII
best help themselves by letting the agents
alone. AS soon as the Commissioner of Pen
sions is ready to take up these claims he Will
issue a circular giving The necessary instruc-
tions TO all claimants, and there Will be no
need for the Intervention of pension attor-
ney at Washington. No attorney can hurry
the allowance in the least, and when the
necessary evidence 10 put IN shape by the
local attorney of claimant, there will be
nothing more to do that cannot be cheerfully
done by his representative in Congress.
TIE Roman soldiers, who built such Won
derful roads, and carried a weight of armor
and luggage that would crush the average
farm hand, lived on coar,e brown bread and
sour wine. They were temperate in diet, reg
ular and constant in exercise. The Spanish
peasant works every day, and dances half the
n ght, vet eats only his black bread, onion
and watermelon, The smyrna porter eats
only little fruit and some olives; ne eats no
! beef, pork or mutton; yet he walks Off with
his 500 pounds. The coOlie, fed on rice, is
more active, and can endure more than the
| negro fed on fat meat. The heavy work of the
word is not done by men VINO eat the great
est quantity. The fastest and longest " inded
| hOrs is not the biggest eater. Moderation in
| diet seems to be the prerequisite for endur-
| ance.
| 1T is well known SAYS the London Athe-
naum, that the two persons for whom Lord
| Byron had the greatest respect. and whose
| ADVICE in literary and other matters he was
| willing to follow, were William Clifford and
| Walter Scott. In 1913 h wrote to Mr.. Muir
! ray that the kiudest letter he had ever re-
! celved in all his life was from MIR. Clifford.
| That letter has recently been { discovered
among the papers of Lady Byron, and by per-
! mission OF Lord Wentworth Will be published
| in the second number of Murray's Magazine
! along with one from SIR Walter scott full of
| admirable advice; but the leading feature in
! 'Byroniana, No. ,, is copy OF verses, the
! last Lord Byron ever wrote, found after his
| death among his papers at VI issOlonghi, which
| have never yet seen the light-indeed. none
/ of these ByronlRna fragments have ever been
seen by any former editor"
TIE Times Of India tells the following story
to show how worse than useless are the bayo-
nets now used in the British army: An Eng
| lish soldier in Lucknow was on sentry near
the quartermaster's stores, where, under the
veranda, number of bale 8, containing shirts,
socks, etc, were placed. 1t appears that
some persons were attempting to take away
! one of the bales under cover of the darkness,